Note 364 — THE TALE OF THE KAZI AND THE BHANG-EATER.[224] (continued 3)

There is another form of the saw in verse:—

Good is good and he’s best whoso worketh it first; ✿ And ill is for me of provisions the worst.

The provision is = viaticum, provaunt for the way.

[The MS. has “akram” and “azlam” = “the more generous,” “the more iniquitous,” meaning that while good should be requited by good, and evil provokes further evil in retaliation, the beginner in either case deserves the greater praise or blame.—St.]